[plug] laptop screen/keyboard/mouse 2 control the server?

[somewhereintime]

Yeah i know about the prices...thanks for your time....maybe i can
convince a manufacture that they might make some money out of making
this gadget, by proving that it saves having too cables hanging around
the place and the prices of the kvm switches...:)

thanks again...


On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:22:03 +0800, "Craig Ringer"
<craig at postnewspapers.com.au> said:
> somewhereintime wrote:
> > sorry but i am a Perth resident, what i am asking is that, can i replace
> > the server monitor/keyboard, with that on my laptop.
> > 
> > Say my server is up and running, and decided that the monitor/keyboard
> > or mouse there takes too much space and i want to free it up, but i want
> > to plug my laptop in with a gadget (if it exist) to automatically become
> > the monitor/keyboard and mouse of that server? i know that kvm switches
> > exist, but would prefere that laptop solution to act as the kvm switch,
> > so that their is less cables hanging all over the place.
> 
> As I said in my reply, I'm not aware of any way that is possible. You 
> probably need to look into rackable server consoles (have a medic on 
> hand for when you see the price), or alternative access methods like a 
> serial console + remote X.
> 
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> Craig Ringer
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